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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 9, 2009 8:03:52 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 10, 2010 1:47:53 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 23, 2012 2:47:23 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 23, 2012 2:52:40 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 26, 2015 22:24:44 GMT
This is pretty exciting: Since its founding in 2004, the Middle Eastern art and culture magazine Bidoun has presented a distinctive, Technicolor vision of a complex region. It has given voice to important Arab feminists, analyzed Pakistani horror films, documented Egypt’s Tahrir Square uprising, and published interviews with the rapper M.I.A. and the gallerist Larry Gagosian. It even explored the influence of “Star Wars” on Saddam Hussein’s son Uday. This month, Bidoun put its entire archive of thousands of stories and artworks online with free access and asked cultural figures, including the Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk and the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, to create small collections of their favorites. The archive, at turns zany and poignant, is a photo album of a long and dramatic decade, from the aftermath of Sept. 11 to the reverberations of the Arab Spring.
Click here for original article. Link to the entire archive of BIDOUN here
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Post by bixaorellana on May 21, 2017 12:36:11 GMT
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 25, 2017 19:00:35 GMT
OOoOooOOoh....X
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 2, 2020 15:33:03 GMT
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Post by breeze on Nov 2, 2020 20:02:31 GMT
Cross-posting from What is everyone here reading?
Post by breeze on 7 hours ago
I just learned about archive.org and it’s my new thrill. I had no idea such a website existed, a place that offers digital access to books, websites (presumably defunct ones?), movies, software, video, audio, TV shows, music, and maybe other things.
My husband has for a long time had an interest in Apples of New York, a collector's item we couldn't afford to collect. I learned that it was on archive.org, looked it up, and there it was, the illustrations bright and clear and probably better than the library copy we almost bought.
For years I've kept a list of books I want to read. I'm only rarely a book buyer, but I'm a steady borrower of library books. Some books have stayed on the list for years since none of the libraries in my area, or even the biggest libraries in the state, has them. I brought out my old notepads and looked through them. It turns out dozens of books I'd given up hope on are available. My winter's reading is all lined up.
A group of major publishers has sued internet archive. IA’s defense is that they operate the same as a library, lending only one copy of a book at a time. I’ve decided to use it only for out of print books.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 2, 2020 21:02:48 GMT
Thanks, Breeze! I've only looked at the site a little bit so far, but the amount of stuff they have is astounding.
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